Book description
'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaper
An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them
Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more…
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This is an account of the challenges of building the first lighthouses around the coast of Great Britain.
But it is so much more than that. "Buildings in the sea, where they shouldn't be."
It is about the life of designers, architects, carpenters, stonemasons, sailors and lighthouse keepers.
Fantastic descriptions that take you to the lighthouses in the depth of a storm, and to the impossibility of building lighthouses.
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